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...Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters - as thin as mica flakes, especially the men - are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a cliche of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...print. It became for the first time a potentially infinite set of representative objects, not just a single “true” artifact. Print was the great democratizer of the art world. No longer was art’s importance based on the Grand Tourism of those affluent enough to make the pilgrimage to the sites of culture in Europe. Suddenly, people who might have been lucky enough to hear of art, to read descriptions of the Louvre, could now from provincial distance actually observe the works of the masters for themselves...
...Democratic “Opportunity Society” would target the roots of inequality, beginning with the vast gulf in education spending that divides affluent and poor communities. That would require a much bigger federal role in education funding. Such a society would invest in universal pre-school, generous paid-parental leave (for mothers and fathers) and health coverage for every child. (Kerry’s under-publicized healthcare proposals make great strides toward universal child health care. By framing that effort as part of a new pledge to level the economic playing field from the start, the challenger could...
...troops died in seven days of fighting, bringing the total for September so far to 54. With militants roaming unmolested in parts of Baghdad, no one is safe. One week after gunmen abducted two Italian women from their home, a group of insurgents raided a house in an affluent Baghdad area and seized two Americans and a British engineer without firing a shot...
Most schools outside of the American bubble don’t have sections or office hours, taped classes or academic advisers. The tuition at Beirut University is $100 per semester, and it shows. Debunking Harvard to all but students from the most affluent and prestigious universities worldwide will only run others’ perceptions of Harvard’s eager study abroad-ers into the ground. By trying to be too modest, Harvard students will only come off as too arrogant...